2 ^a“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.  ‡

3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the ^atenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.  ‡

4 And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be ^awithout blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.  ‡

6 Now you shall keep it until the ^afourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.  ‡